The Cabinet of Ministers updated the procedure for determining the criticality of enterprises — clarified the rules for reserving employees from mobilization and the deadlines for confirming compliance with the new criteria. In parallel, ministries and the OVA approved new industry requirements, and the IT sector is among the areas most affected by the changes.
The Cabinet of Ministers updated the procedure for determining the criticality of enterprises — clarified the rules for reserving employees from mobilization and the deadlines for confirming compliance with the new criteria. In parallel, ministries and the OVA approved new industry requirements, and the IT sector is among the areas most affected by the changes.
The mere fact of residency in «Diya.City» no longer guarantees the status of a critical enterprise. Companies now need to confirm that the average monthly remuneration of the involved employees and gig specialists over the past six months was at least the equivalent of €1,200 (about UAH 61,000).
According to Natalia Mykolska, Executive Director of Diia.City United, quoted by Forbes Ukraine, this makes it difficult for startups and new residents of Diia.City to obtain critical status.
A critically important enterprise must meet three criteria: the average salary at the enterprise (the minimum threshold has been increased to UAH 25,941), the absence of tax arrears — both mandatory for everyone — and the third criterion for the company to choose from among basic, industry, or regional.
Enterprises that only need to raise the salary criterion to meet the new requirements have a simplified status confirmation procedure available — they can submit an application, a certificate of average salary, and a tax calculation by August 10. Relevant state bodies must consider the application within 10 business days, although lawyer Tetyana Levkivska (Forvis Mazars) warns that the process may be delayed due to the burden on state bodies.
The general deadline for submitting a full package of documents is August 17, 2026, but Levkivska advises submitting them earlier: to the ministries no later than August 7, to the OVA by the end of July, since in practice the review can take a month or more. The current critical status is maintained until the end of its validity period, but no longer than September 1.
Reservations are now only stored at the workplace where the person has worked the longest. For employees with reservations at two workplaces, companies have 10 business days to cancel a part-time reservation from the moment the violation is discovered (and not from the moment the request for cancellation is received) — the application can be submitted through «Diya».
The European Business Association notes that this rule does not always take into account the specifics of areas where employees work part-time for years, but change their main place of employment.
In addition to IT, requirements for agricultural enterprises have tightened (the minimum area of land cultivation has been raised from 500 to 1,000 hectares, and some OVAs even up to 200 hectares for small farms) and risks for metallurgy have decreased — the Metinvest group predicts a reduction in reserved employees by hundreds of people and an outflow of 3.5–4% of personnel by the end of the year.
